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by patmcc 6y ago
>>>And? It's a news story, there doesn't have to be any underlying editorial message. Sometimes the news is just "thing happens".
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by patmcc 6y ago
Hate speech is a tricky thing to ban; who decides on what exactly constitutes antisemitism (or whatever)? America has traditionally leaned one way, other nations often go the other. I'd love to ban Nazis and hate speech...but I don&#
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by patmcc 6y ago
This is why "assets = liabilities + equity" works much better. You would increase assets by $200, since you got that much cash (cash is an asset). You would increase equity by $200 as well (often accountants will call that "O
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by patmcc 6y ago
Banks and non-banks don't treat assets/liabilities in different ways in accounting - banks just engage in transactions most other businesses don't, as a normal matter of business. For example - if you're holding someone&
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by patmcc 6y ago
One minor "error" - depreciation only happens on capital assets, that should be a Pizza Expense.
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by patmcc 6y ago
Doordash seems to provide two different services. 1) Doordash has some deal with the restaurant, gets a commission on sales, fees, whatever. 2) Doordash has no deal with the restaurant, charges customer $x+y, buys food from restaurant at $x
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by patmcc 7y ago
It's very interesting to me that (nearly) everyone agrees that reselling disaster supplies like masks, hand sanitizer, etc. for a large profit is terrible, but somehow selling literal essentials like food, housing, and healthcare for p
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by patmcc 7y ago
YouTubers absolutely realize, but YouTube is the biggest game in town by a huge margin. If you're making non-porn videos on the internet, it's very very hard to be successful outside of youtube.
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by patmcc 7y ago
Sure, but neither is the guy who asks for a new drug based on the 30 second ad he just saw. If I go to my doctor and say "hey, for my condition XYZ I hear there's a new drug ABC, would that offer any benefits over what I'm on
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by patmcc 7y ago
Signatures work perfectly well in the two usual cases: one, when the service is delivered properly and as expected, and two, when the service is not delivered as expected but no one disputes that both parties agreed to it. Where they fall a
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by patmcc 7y ago
>>>My wife and I are moving to a state that allows assisted suicide after our kids are out of the house. Neither of us want to live like that or be remembered like that. Same - but even in places where assisted suicide is legal, it
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by patmcc 7y ago
One of the common anti-vaxxer talking points is about how vaccines are dangerous because they contain mercury.
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by patmcc 7y ago
How does the medical establishment benefit from not curing your illness?
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by patmcc 7y ago
It's hard to say - maybe for a sufficiently advanced AI, Lorde's style would be an obvious extrapolation from the popular music of the time. Certainly we're not there yet, and it's an open question if we ever will be - b
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by patmcc 7y ago
>>>The fact an AI can express itself through music is sure as hell not gonna stop me from also expressing myself. I think this is the key; if you're making music for your own reasons, no AI (or Mozart) would stop you. But if y
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by patmcc 7y ago
>>>I'm not so sure it's okay for him to do it on Blizzard's show/event. >>>...but was she right to do it from Saturday Night Live's Live broadcast? If SNL wants to not invite O'Connor back, or
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by patmcc 7y ago
"Singular they" is indeed well used, but it's not normally used when the gender of the person in question is explicitly known. If you use "they" for someone who has specifically said to you "please use the pr
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by patmcc 7y ago
Yes, people will often find it offensive if you use "they" after asked to use "he" or "she". If someone says "I am a man, please use he/him for my pronouns" and you use 'they' - that wo
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by patmcc 7y ago
There's an distinction made between legalization and decriminalization in terms of sex work (that I think is the reverse of how they're used in regards to drugs). Legalization, to sex workers, implies regulation, licensing, ad
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by patmcc 7y ago
Sure, if you had a free and convenient citizen ID card, requiring ID to vote might be just fine. As it is currently, it's absolutely a way to suppress the vote of low-income (and minority) people. In many areas of many states getting
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by patmcc 7y ago
Maybe some ideas are in fact so "settled" that anyone being seriously skeptical of them is either trolling (and not worth our time) or frighteningly unethical (and should not be in a position of power). For example: 1) Men should
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by patmcc 7y ago
>>I expressed no opinion either way on that topic. I don't even consider the topic relevant to my position, which is that once we agree that merely asking some questions will result in harsh punishments, we're hosed as a soc
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by patmcc 7y ago
Same ballpark ($2-3 million/acre) - and yeah, you're not wrong that if you can get approval for 250 units in an acre you can have reasonably priced housing. But the hard part in that equation is convincing whoever controls zoning
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by patmcc 7y ago
Why do you think construction price, and not land price, is the limiting factor? I'm in a high-demand city in Canada. The house I'm in right now is worth about $70k. The land it sits on is worth $900k. Shipping containers aren&#x2
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by patmcc 7y ago
Your initial comment was "Sadly, a lot of people genuinely believe that everything is political" Taiwan being a country or not, and what shows up in a google search about it, isn't political for you, or for me, or for many pe
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by patmcc 7y ago
>>>A few comments are saying that forests capture a lot of CO2. As you indicate, those people are incorrect. But a forest may contain a lot of C02, such that burning it all at once increases the amount in the atmosphere noticeabl
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by patmcc 7y ago
>>It's common sense. Anything that revolves around government, elections, laws, etc. Go ahead and google 'Taiwan' and then 'Canada' or 'Japan'. Taiwan (in the right sidebar thing) is listed different
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by patmcc 7y ago
Here's the problem: go ahead and ask a bunch of different people what they want/expect their shuffle/random button to do and you'll get a bunch of different answers. 1. I want it to play in a truly random fashion, with r
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by patmcc 7y ago
No, but it is overkill compared to a single hdmi cable.
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by patmcc 7y ago
>>>a subset of works would be onerous and somewhat annoying for 28 years, after which you could literally do whatever you want with them. Unfortunately, what would probably happen is more like what is happening to video games now;

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